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AINous Research, developer of the open source Hermes Agent, raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Robot Ventures. The capital will fund its enterprise push with Hermes for Businesses, which lets companies deploy customized AI agents for multi-step workflows while keeping data private. The article reports about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September 2026, citing The Wall Street Journal.

AIManus' parent company Butterfly Effect said it raised more than $500 million, its first funding round since Meta called off its $2 billion acquisition. Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round, and existing shareholders including Tencent also participated, though the valuation was not disclosed.

AIZach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a personal AI assistant startup that has raised $10 million led by Vine Ventures. Persona will offer a $179 wearable band that activates via button or wrist flick, with the model running in the cloud rather than on the device. The band is expected in December, and Persona is currently a free beta available through iMessage.

AInatolambert has been writing about it for years. The co-founder of @trillium_labs and author of Interconnects is speaking at Forge on how open models win. Join us Nov 3 in SF:

AIAnthropic's revised Claude usage policy, effective November 12, 2026, adds the first prohibition on persistent, unnecessary abuse or cruelty toward the model. Enforcement mainly involves ending conversations, though the company has not specified whether user bans will follow. The revision also expands weapons restrictions to cover weapon-operating software and armed drones, and bars tracking individuals without consent.

AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.

AISpaceX is buying spectrum licenses to build a mobile network that would compete with major telecom companies. The source provides no further details on the licenses' cost, timing, or network specifications.

AIAutonomous vehicle companies in China see a large market opportunity in delivering goods after dark, according to the article. The article says that opportunity depends on overcoming technical challenges, but the source does not specify which challenges or report any deployments.

AIMeta has banned advertisements from ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, on its platforms in the US. The move intensifies competition with the popular short-video app.

AILooking forward to collaborating on the future of science!

AISpaceX announced an agreement to buy a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio from Grain Management, subject to FCC approval. The license covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum and is intended to help Starlink become a major US mobile carrier. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile shares fell in extended trading after the announcement.

AIFirmus Technologies withdrew its application to list on the ASX after investor demand for its AI datacentre business failed to materialise. The company had an anticipated $44bn valuation and planned to raise $7bn ahead of a 23 October listing, and will now seek private capital instead.

AIPresident Trump presented the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation to tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella and Michael Dell at a Washington summit called the Golden Age of American Innovation. Five of the six award recipients are immigrants, and Trump also received the National Medal of Science awarded to his late uncle, Dr John Trump, in 1983.

AIBaiju Bhatt, founder and CEO of Cowboy Space, says the company is developing an energy grid in orbit. Its first satellite, Reason 1, reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare, and the team is communicating with it daily.

AIAlphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs is reportedly in early-stage talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of $40 billion to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg, which did not specify the round's size. Isomorphic's flagship AI platform, IsoDDE, is designed to automate binding pocket discovery, which it says is more than 50% better than the closest competing tool, and it models antibody interactions about 2.3 times better than AlphaFold. The company earns revenue through research partnerships with Eli Lilly, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson.

AIPrima Mente and AlzData are launching the Alzheimer's Translation Challenge, a global AI competition to discover new therapeutic hypotheses for Alzheimer's disease. The challenge centers on a 150M cell atlas of neurons, astrocytes, and microglia across different genetic backgrounds under combinatorial perturbations, with multi-modal readouts. Top teams will have their hypotheses tested in Prima Mente's wet lab, and the data will be available through the AD workbench, Hugging Face, and Prima Mente's modeling platform.

AIdylan522p, Founder & CEO of @SemiAnalysis_, joins the Fireworks Forge speaker list on optimizing every layer of AI infrastructure for inference at scale. Join us Nov 3 in SF:

AIApplied Digital shares fell about 2.5% after first-quarter revenue rose more than 320% year over year and beat estimates. CEO Wes Cummins said the gap between revenue growth and the share reaction should narrow over the next 12 months. He expects all contracted capacity to be online in roughly 20 to 22 months.

AIOpen Haus Berlin lineup: → @RiqwanMThamir from @n8n_io → Harry Kim from @nvidia → @zainhas from Together AI good food, drinks, and better arguments about evals, inside a glowing digital art museum. Berlin, komm vorbei 👇🏻

AIOpenAI told investors it reached roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, below the $68 billion figure widely reported last month. Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave shares fell on Thursday, with a person familiar saying the $68 billion figure included partner gross revenue. OpenAI is also weighing a possible funding round of around $30 billion and has not finalized a term sheet.

AISafeWorld emerged from stealth this week with $12.2 million in seed funding for its robot safety simulation platform. The software lets teams build test scenarios from past incidents, safety standards, and robot logs, then runs robots through thousands of variations with reactive human motion. SafeWorld said it supports robot arms, humanoids, and mobile robots, with customers in industrial, manufacturing, logistics, and construction.

AIThat work will take time: the Anthropic Cyber Mission will expand and change as we learn what works, alongside our partners in the public and private sectors.

AIMy parents came to America with big dreams and a deep belief in education and hard work. This country gave me the opportunity to pursue my passion for semiconductors and work with extraordinary people to push the boundaries of what is possible. I am so excited about what we can accomplish together as America continues to lead the world in science and technology.

AIPresident Donald Trump hosted a White House "A New Golden Age Summit" on Thursday, awarding medals to tech figures including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Jensen Huang. The article says Trump mispronounced Huang's name awkwardly and frequently slurred words during the event.

AIManus, the developer of the Manus AI agent, has raised more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital, with Tencent also investing. Bloomberg had reported a $4 billion valuation, roughly double Meta's reported offer last December, which Chinese regulators blocked in April. The funding comes days after Manus 2.0 added a new harness, Cloud Computer, and Cue, which lets agents use email accounts and digital wallets.

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AI…breakthroughs. And to fellow honorees Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin.

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AITheir infrastructure had to match that scale. (2/4)